Today would be Mary Blair's 100th birthday and to celebrate Google created a Google Doodle inspired by Mary Blair's art. Very cool!
Just wanted to mention again that I have a chapter in my book, The Place of Lewis Carroll in Children's Literature, on the Alice in Wonderland book that uses Mary Blair's original artwork for the Disney film and Jon Scieszka's adaptation. That chapter essay, "Show Me, Don't (Re)Tell Me: Jon Scieszka Revisits Wonderland" is available in .pd format here. Blair's work continues to show an amazing imagination but the usually funny and clever Scieszka seems a little intimated by adapating Carroll's work. I'm working on a few other ideas related to Mary Blair's art as well.
Go Mary Blair!
The Mary Blair Google Doodle.
more artwork from Mary Blair Disneyland exhibit
From the Mary Blair exhibit at Disneyland in Summer 2011